High-speed wavelength conversion of RZ-DPSK signal using FWM in a quantum-dot SOA

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 615-617

  Matsuura, Motoharu ^a   Kishi, Naoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical wavelength conversion; differential phase shift keying (DPSK); four wave mixing (FWM); quantum dot (QD) devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; DPSK SIGNALS; HIGH-SPEED; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; QUANTUM-DOT (QD) DEVICES; QUANTUM-DOT SOA; RETURN-TO-ZERO DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 79955510970     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2119396     Document Type: Article

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